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alcohol which is a legalized drug today alcohol which is a legalized drug today causes a million more arrests in the united states then all of our legal drugs combined so police are going to be frankly we're going to need more police after legalization because more people are going to be intoxicated there's going to be more crime and there's actually going to be more of a need for incarceration so frankly treatment doctors law no one is going to ever want to not a them under the earlier years pharmacist zero having all the evidence is that two point six million people are arrested zero evidence to get it and where is the evidence that marijuana creates that harm is that alcohol does next year you know that is the marijuana use those even in your hollywood on the side. very well but interrupting me zero evidence cattle let you go ahead ok peter you want if there is . a lot of the little companies well let me just say one thing. people use arrested for alcohol. let me just. try to sort of suggest that the use of the word legalization and war on drugs both have connotations what if we we
alcohol which is a legalized drug today alcohol which is a legalized drug today causes a million more arrests in the united states then all of our legal drugs combined so police are going to be frankly we're going to need more police after legalization because more people are going to be intoxicated there's going to be more crime and there's actually going to be more of a need for incarceration so frankly treatment doctors law no one is going to ever want to not a them under the earlier years...
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my third point concerns the legal profession. optimism with legal professionals, there's amendndor constitutional government, closed quote. of course, the legal profession is ultimately crucial to the rule of law anywhere, and he's surely correct to use the platform he has before thousands of chinese students to try to inspire them as he has done so well, but i think it is important that we remain mindful of tokeville's add no vision added vision, it is the law giver himself who is responsible for taking away liberty. they, the lawyers, are more content, closed quote. simply to note that lawyers and the legal profession are very much tied to the status quo. in this really in by mind captures the dilemma today in china. its capacity to advance liberalization is somewhat constrained by its need to stay on good terms with officialdom and the matter. i can't tell you how many dozens of chinese lawyers have with great regret told me this themselves, and honesty compels me to say that if i were or in their position, i'm not sure i woul
my third point concerns the legal profession. optimism with legal professionals, there's amendndor constitutional government, closed quote. of course, the legal profession is ultimately crucial to the rule of law anywhere, and he's surely correct to use the platform he has before thousands of chinese students to try to inspire them as he has done so well, but i think it is important that we remain mindful of tokeville's add no vision added vision, it is the law giver himself who is responsible...
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legal is legal non conforping and allowed to go on and maybe there were exceptions. there was a gentleman who spoke, mr. goodman and talked about a site he has and i'm not sure exactly where that is. is that within the aws pinses of the 11 ethstreet zoning. >> yes. essentially across the street from slims. >> okay. it's one of the spaces on the map that is marked in whatever color we're using -- >> it's actually not designated as a soft site because it is developed right now as the purple building but the proposal is to demolish that building and develop it as housing. >> the other consideration i might be interested in learning about is some kind of a middle ground if a project was begun 10 or five years ago and grandfathered if the investor decided to go go ahead and what they were doing and housing and good instillation i am not opposed to that grandfathering thing but to encourage more housing in the future for what is in process i don't know if that is a good idea. it's a fairly small zone and we have the rest of the area for housing. although the other thing th
legal is legal non conforping and allowed to go on and maybe there were exceptions. there was a gentleman who spoke, mr. goodman and talked about a site he has and i'm not sure exactly where that is. is that within the aws pinses of the 11 ethstreet zoning. >> yes. essentially across the street from slims. >> okay. it's one of the spaces on the map that is marked in whatever color we're using -- >> it's actually not designated as a soft site because it is developed right now...
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party's progressive roots also last wednesday washington and colorado became the first two states to legalize marijuana much to the joy of college students in both states but is president obama ready to stop nixon's failed war on drugs and allow college campuses to go green and california law says that corporations are people so shouldn't you be able to drive in the highway carpool lane just you and your incorporation papers by yourself. you need to know this the biggest message out of the two thousand and twelve election that you'll never hear from the corporate media is this that americans believe and voted to affirm that believe that government can be a solution to the problems we face the government can do good things and that ronald reagan was wrong. america is not ace a right wing or even a center right nation we never have been in one hundred thirty five f.d.r. broader social security and we loved it then and we still love it now and that of course is just the tip of the iceberg proves america is a leftist nation if you call leftist people who believe the government can do things well
party's progressive roots also last wednesday washington and colorado became the first two states to legalize marijuana much to the joy of college students in both states but is president obama ready to stop nixon's failed war on drugs and allow college campuses to go green and california law says that corporations are people so shouldn't you be able to drive in the highway carpool lane just you and your incorporation papers by yourself. you need to know this the biggest message out of the two...
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so, any use that's legal now may already be legal nonconforming or it's legal now and it's going to be rezoned in a way that use is no longer permitted, it will become legal nonconforming. how we treat those uses, obviously they're allowed to stay. in some cases depending on the use, they're allowed to expand to some degree with certain approvals. that's already kind of covered in the code. the legitimate am i sayization process we did for eastern neighborhoods was specifically for projects that had not got earn their permit so they weren't legal but uses that could have gotten their permits when they went but they didn't. >> right. >> it gave them an option to come in and become legal nonconforming uses * because if it's a situation where you have a use that's legal right now and we're proposing to rezone it and it's going to become legal nonconforming use, there's no way to kind of provide a pathway to legalizing that use without changing the zoning. >> right. i was thinking about doing that here. it doesn't sound like we were. >> no, we were not proposing to do a legitimatization pr
so, any use that's legal now may already be legal nonconforming or it's legal now and it's going to be rezoned in a way that use is no longer permitted, it will become legal nonconforming. how we treat those uses, obviously they're allowed to stay. in some cases depending on the use, they're allowed to expand to some degree with certain approvals. that's already kind of covered in the code. the legitimate am i sayization process we did for eastern neighborhoods was specifically for projects...
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. >> of course we should legalize. we don't want government telling us what is it safe and do with our private lives. it would lead to higher revenues and my only problem there. we have a spending problem and it scares me to hand them more money . >> steve, is it good or bad? >> it is a bad idea. countries that do it find people go in other druggings it is more corruption of the highest other. >> i want to make i got it right. i pulled up cheech and chong. it is this have been legalized a long time ago . it is it all good. >> mike? it is folly to think it will lower the deficit. raising taxes on cigarettes and gambling it is it a spending problem and give the government more power and money to spend. >> colorado said it would bring in 20 million. >> legalize other things lik big cars and tax the gasoline and legalize. honestly. legalize light bulbs that work i hope it is crenimialized. >> coming up. new worries tt grid lock is here to stay in dc. profit from it with the stocks that heat up. >> we are back on stocks . w
. >> of course we should legalize. we don't want government telling us what is it safe and do with our private lives. it would lead to higher revenues and my only problem there. we have a spending problem and it scares me to hand them more money . >> steve, is it good or bad? >> it is a bad idea. countries that do it find people go in other druggings it is more corruption of the highest other. >> i want to make i got it right. i pulled up cheech and chong. it is this...
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it's a different situation. >> that's true. >> they can legally proceed. >> yes. that means they got the legal approvals at the time they went in and the zoning changed after the fact that made them no longer legal and the legitimate program and programs that could have gotten the approval you but didn't get them or maybe didn't pay the impact fees and couldn't legalize under the zoning and maybe went to another one and office was not permitted and gave them an opportunity when originally going in -- >> like the areas with the old sli was more vague. it was fairly permissive if i remember correctly than the sally was? no? >> not really. in terms of offices and housing under the sli there are two small ways to get that so for housing only if 100% affordable housing and for the other one is work space for design professionals and narrow and have to be on the third floor or above and certain feet and it's prescriptive and i don't know anyone that took advantage of it. >> i am just wondering and i know there are offices -- >> yeah and some went in before and some did
it's a different situation. >> that's true. >> they can legally proceed. >> yes. that means they got the legal approvals at the time they went in and the zoning changed after the fact that made them no longer legal and the legitimate program and programs that could have gotten the approval you but didn't get them or maybe didn't pay the impact fees and couldn't legalize under the zoning and maybe went to another one and office was not permitted and gave them an opportunity...
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people who are in favor of legalization, the groups that supported legalization, put in $6 million. the people who are opposed to legalization put in a grand total of $16,000. there is nobody who is -- i don't think there is anybody in american life anymore willing to stand up and put a bet on holding this line against marijuana legalization. >> especially when you look at the fact that both sides of the aisle see a reason to legalize it. there's the economic argument, which is that it raises millions of dollars in taxes, and then there's the theoretical argument about the libertarian argument that the government shouldn't be regulating this in the first place and then the efficacy of the war on drugs and in your story you write the war on drugs has always depended on a morbid equilibrium in which our costs is balanced against the consequences in illness and death of widely spread use. thanks in part to enforcement addiction has receded in america meaning that benefits of continuing prohibition have diminished. >> yeah. one of the things that's fascinating to me about what's happene
people who are in favor of legalization, the groups that supported legalization, put in $6 million. the people who are opposed to legalization put in a grand total of $16,000. there is nobody who is -- i don't think there is anybody in american life anymore willing to stand up and put a bet on holding this line against marijuana legalization. >> especially when you look at the fact that both sides of the aisle see a reason to legalize it. there's the economic argument, which is that it...
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we added on to note the determination and legality of the law. that was just a determination on the approval process, the first part, so that was distinction between the first and second letters. one was just the approval process, and actually i think in the original letter, and i am sorry we didn't share the original request from may with the board, but provided all these facts and they argued that the original subdivision didn't comply with the planning code and didn't have information about the old planning codes and that was part of our research. we actually determined what was proposed then of the three lots it did comply with the planning code and so -- i don't think it made much difference to the appellant whether it complied with the planning code or not. what was important to them is what happened after and not part of the original request, but we thought it was important to address that given the appeal on the condo map that we should give them the ability -- since our typical process is the letter of determination. that's what we have
we added on to note the determination and legality of the law. that was just a determination on the approval process, the first part, so that was distinction between the first and second letters. one was just the approval process, and actually i think in the original letter, and i am sorry we didn't share the original request from may with the board, but provided all these facts and they argued that the original subdivision didn't comply with the planning code and didn't have information about...
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but i think that the legal advice is right. as long as for any of us, we feel that we have an open mind on the merits of an issue that is before us. people can judge from the conversation and the analysis and the decision that we make. >> mr. shaw? we... i will give you a chance to talk now on the... whether we should handle the matter issue, which is the preliminary matter and also the merits. if you would like to so address. >> thank you, because the my advice of how you perceive from mr. chat field is that i would only have public comment not any kind of presentation. >> and to that extend, the fact that you are rushing this thing through before adopting the final guidelines for referals of this sunshine cases should be waiting until you hammer out that process. instead of catching me the tail end of a old process that you don't like and you have not finished the other process. but i find it interesting that gibner said that he was not consulted before this was shipped off to miss herrick in san jose. apparently the commissi
but i think that the legal advice is right. as long as for any of us, we feel that we have an open mind on the merits of an issue that is before us. people can judge from the conversation and the analysis and the decision that we make. >> mr. shaw? we... i will give you a chance to talk now on the... whether we should handle the matter issue, which is the preliminary matter and also the merits. if you would like to so address. >> thank you, because the my advice of how you perceive...
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i would not say that in many instances, legalizing -- "legal" is a strong term. in our business and sales business, we try to avoid that term. it has many implications. to say something illegal is -- to say something is legal or illegal has a lot of implications. we cannot really say. we can say it does permit it or not permit it. what is or is not authorized is a different statement. we have to be mindful. one thing i wanted to say about jeremy pose a question was, there are quite a few very good people in san francisco to go to if you want to legalize something that had been done without a permit in the past, or you want to get a permit for every model that was done or a bathroom that was added downstairs without a permit, and you feel like your uncle maybe was -- may have done it properly. oftentimes, it is no big deal. it is a good thing to do. there are many companies that specialize in doing just that. you can do that. it depends on your goal. if your goal is to sell the property or to avoid neighbor complete -- there could be two different goals with two d
i would not say that in many instances, legalizing -- "legal" is a strong term. in our business and sales business, we try to avoid that term. it has many implications. to say something illegal is -- to say something is legal or illegal has a lot of implications. we cannot really say. we can say it does permit it or not permit it. what is or is not authorized is a different statement. we have to be mindful. one thing i wanted to say about jeremy pose a question was, there are quite a...
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. >> all mexicans are legal. they might not be american, but they are legal. >> no. they are undocumented. they are missing a piece of paper. >> this may be the most important news of the election. there is a report that in the virginia senate race between tim kaine and george allen, hank the cat is in third place. >> wow. >> with around 6,000 votes. >> i would have voted for him. >> jedediah, if the gop will talk about the future and rebranding, i think feline candidates have to be a part of the discussion. >> have to be, dogs, cats, parrots. we have a bunch of parrots. >> i hope the race doesn't end in a dead heat. >> wow. >> oh man. >> wow. >> not even going to try to come back to that one. >> man behind innocence of muslims sentence to prison. jedediah, i am with you. what this guy did wrong it seems to me was he violated the terms of his parole in a way that ended up becoming very, very public and that's why he got arrested. >> for me the guy deserves to be in jail. if this was a stand up guy who didn't have a pass and he was somehow in jail for the movie alone,
. >> all mexicans are legal. they might not be american, but they are legal. >> no. they are undocumented. they are missing a piece of paper. >> this may be the most important news of the election. there is a report that in the virginia senate race between tim kaine and george allen, hank the cat is in third place. >> wow. >> with around 6,000 votes. >> i would have voted for him. >> jedediah, if the gop will talk about the future and rebranding, i...
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now, what does it mean on the legal side? i actually think the idea of free will or what is often referred to as volitional control plays a very big part in legal systems, but i think in the legal systems, we don't mean it empirically. we don't mean it as a factual construct. we don't mean that there is actual an idea that someone has free will and has made a conscious choice and that we can somehow measure it. i think that in the criminal law, what we mean by free will is essentially a conclusion. it's not a premise, it is a conclusion. we have concluded that the person should have and will take responsibility for their action and therefore they had free will and they're going to take the consequences for that. the problem is when we start actually believing the rhetoric, we actually start believing what we're saying, if you think that, if you use free will normatively, used as a value judgment about when somebody should have to take responsibility and you use it that way in the criminal law, what happens is it starts bleedi
now, what does it mean on the legal side? i actually think the idea of free will or what is often referred to as volitional control plays a very big part in legal systems, but i think in the legal systems, we don't mean it empirically. we don't mean it as a factual construct. we don't mean that there is actual an idea that someone has free will and has made a conscious choice and that we can somehow measure it. i think that in the criminal law, what we mean by free will is essentially a...
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additional step to say hey, let's legalize it. >> jennifer: now you've got full legalization in colorado and washington. in colorado, more people voted to legalize pot than voted for the president in washington, it was about the same. so are you going to see now the federal government clamping down on dispensaries because it is a federal crime still in washington and colorado like they did here in oakland? >> i think it is an open question. the situation -- the politics of this have evolved since then. i think when prop 19 in california failed, the federal government felt emboldened to crack down on the industry here. but now that voters in two states have voted to fully legalize recreational pot the politics of political calculation changes a little bit. it is still an open question but i think that they have reason to be cautious this time. >> jennifer: what has the president said about it? does he support it? >> the president has been mum on the subject and you can really only divine what he think through the actions of say the department of justice. >> jennifer: or the biographers th
additional step to say hey, let's legalize it. >> jennifer: now you've got full legalization in colorado and washington. in colorado, more people voted to legalize pot than voted for the president in washington, it was about the same. so are you going to see now the federal government clamping down on dispensaries because it is a federal crime still in washington and colorado like they did here in oakland? >> i think it is an open question. the situation -- the politics of this have...
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>> in the state of nevada it is legal, everybody on the outside of the state looks at the legal side of the industry. but in the state of nevada in story county and only in counties where it is legal, so no ma'am read i. it is not an inflamed issue. melissa: it is hard for us to imagine somebody electing somebody who ran a production company or something. even though that is a legal industry as well. oh ticket and get attention. what is the number one thing you will do know that you are in office? >> it has the second-largest tourist center in virginia city. for mark twain came from. we are mining gold. huge reserves of gold and silver. at one time it was the wealthiest place on earth is moving back in that direction. indicate industrial center, which is the part i own and develop, largest industrial park in the united states today. that is where apple just associated and located here recently. we have fortune 100 companies, 130 companies, 12 million feet in eight years, i have done those, that is why was elected as commissioner. that is how i'm going to take care of my folks. meliss
>> in the state of nevada it is legal, everybody on the outside of the state looks at the legal side of the industry. but in the state of nevada in story county and only in counties where it is legal, so no ma'am read i. it is not an inflamed issue. melissa: it is hard for us to imagine somebody electing somebody who ran a production company or something. even though that is a legal industry as well. oh ticket and get attention. what is the number one thing you will do know that you are...
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again those eight permits could not have been issued if this wasn't a legal lot. in may they came to our office, mr. bab ner and the appellants and wanted lot history. it was an unusual request. i was out of town in june and we wanted the address because the request was unusual. they were seeking clarification about the approval process. we issued that letter in august. unbeimonst to us they submitted a request with public works to do a condo conversion so if units are opened -- owner occupied and we reviewed that. staff saw in the block books and what was shown is a lot that matched what is there today, so with that they approved it and found it code complying. then the appellant in this case appealed the issuance of the condo map that they applied for by the city to do the condo conversion. at that time they submitted a letter that they received from the department of public works in february which the county surveyor outlined a process they could determine the lot question. that's the first time i seen a written response from bruce and the letter they provided
again those eight permits could not have been issued if this wasn't a legal lot. in may they came to our office, mr. bab ner and the appellants and wanted lot history. it was an unusual request. i was out of town in june and we wanted the address because the request was unusual. they were seeking clarification about the approval process. we issued that letter in august. unbeimonst to us they submitted a request with public works to do a condo conversion so if units are opened -- owner occupied...
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>> you are asking whether there is a legal... whether you are legally can send it to an outside body? >> one question would be legally permitted and is there a policy consideration that i am not seeing? yes, for not putting it that way. >> i am not sure whether you are legally permitted to send the adjudication to an outside body. >> i see. the entire adjudication. >> right. right. if a single member, for instance, the executive director has been bared from the violation, he cannot make decisions or decisions involving his own character or conduct, but that does not mean that the ethics commission as a whole has a conflict and because our local laws charge the ethics commission with making the final determinations in these matters. i am not sure that the ethics commission can then send that final decision to another body to make. >> okay. so you think that we may not be legally permitted to send the entire case to another jurisdiction altogether? >> that is right. i see. okay. >> mr. grossman, please? >> sit down. >> there is tim
>> you are asking whether there is a legal... whether you are legally can send it to an outside body? >> one question would be legally permitted and is there a policy consideration that i am not seeing? yes, for not putting it that way. >> i am not sure whether you are legally permitted to send the adjudication to an outside body. >> i see. the entire adjudication. >> right. right. if a single member, for instance, the executive director has been bared from the...
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i personally don't like when too many things are legal non conforping. i think we always see that as a challenge in the code. if there is a preponderance of use in a area and ideally like the part of the plan and what is the existing and that is my rational for favoring something like 3b. the other thing i do believe that office is more compatible use with the night time use and day time use and you can have night time use and create other sources of income and revenue for those buildings or property owners so that the two uses could co-exist and i know entertainment has the peaks and valleys for the financial success for them and having other options in the neighborhood would be worth while as well, and i think it would encourage restaurants and other uses, not just night life to be in the neighborhood. maybe a restaurant that has live entertainment. i do have a couple questions -- i saw -- you mentioned about no vertical architecture elements. i just wanted to understand what is the rational behind that? >> sure. so there were a number of design compon
i personally don't like when too many things are legal non conforping. i think we always see that as a challenge in the code. if there is a preponderance of use in a area and ideally like the part of the plan and what is the existing and that is my rational for favoring something like 3b. the other thing i do believe that office is more compatible use with the night time use and day time use and you can have night time use and create other sources of income and revenue for those buildings or...
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to get legal status. but i also think most people don't feel obligated to provide this legal status if there's a danger that providing it will yield more illegal immigration in the future. if that is, it will just form part of a cycle of an ineffective and fundamentally unserious national policy. a lack of trust in the federal government and a national politics seems to me to have been and to continue to be the most serious obstacle to the achievement of an immigration policy that otherwise looks like it ought to have a consensus behind it. the more people have confidence enforcement, confidence and enforcement both at the boarder and again, as richard said, at the workplace, the more i suspect they would be willing to support legalization, amnesty or whatever you want to call it. and i think that consensus would include an awful lot of conservatives. but what strikes me as more problematic in principle than earned legalization in a lot of proposals i hear about immigration reform is the idea of temporary
to get legal status. but i also think most people don't feel obligated to provide this legal status if there's a danger that providing it will yield more illegal immigration in the future. if that is, it will just form part of a cycle of an ineffective and fundamentally unserious national policy. a lack of trust in the federal government and a national politics seems to me to have been and to continue to be the most serious obstacle to the achievement of an immigration policy that otherwise...
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exist in a free market you should keep it legal. i mean there was this infinity the whole argument you know there you go if there is a very no such thing as a free market it's like say let's have free basketball games no rules no referee i just i don't see me as the most money can do so i hope i would understand are you understand my just but you understand my point that if somebody really well if you mean it's functioning now well in the black market the black market is if you're going to do well in the black market really have more people in prison yeah it's than any other country on earth quite per capita or in absolute numbers that's not a fueling some violent crime in cartels and murder that's we're going to six million a year it's you know me i don't tell these are not this is are going to reset with the want to state legalize marijuana i know that there's still i'm restrictions on like student aid or where people can't get into milk like if someone is in a state where marijuana is legal then they don't have the same sort of r
exist in a free market you should keep it legal. i mean there was this infinity the whole argument you know there you go if there is a very no such thing as a free market it's like say let's have free basketball games no rules no referee i just i don't see me as the most money can do so i hope i would understand are you understand my just but you understand my point that if somebody really well if you mean it's functioning now well in the black market the black market is if you're going to do...
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it's -- marriage legal in the state. it's been defeated 32 times it's been on the ballot in other states. maryland is the 7th state in addition to the district of columbia to i prove marriage -- to approve marriage equality. they argued it's a civil right and children of children of same sex couples have the right to be raised by parents that are married. eye doesn't force clergy to perform marriage ceremonies. religious organizations are not requireed to participate inform if he object. opponents pushed it to a ref rund up. maryland ref rund -- ref rund um. -- reverend up. it was a night celebration for -- referendum. it was a nice of -- night of celebration for some. >> when we knocked on thousands of doors and made thousands of phone calls, we got to the point tonight when we could all look at each other as marylanders and say we are truly equal. >> reporter: now same sex marriage was also approved in main reporting live in federal hill, sherrie johnson, abc2 news. >>> get ready for table games like blackjack and othe
it's -- marriage legal in the state. it's been defeated 32 times it's been on the ballot in other states. maryland is the 7th state in addition to the district of columbia to i prove marriage -- to approve marriage equality. they argued it's a civil right and children of children of same sex couples have the right to be raised by parents that are married. eye doesn't force clergy to perform marriage ceremonies. religious organizations are not requireed to participate inform if he object....